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I wrote these lyrics for a niece who was in high school at the time and who was a singer. We never got around to writing the music for it, and same niece is now pursuing an acting and college career.
The songs below were my first attempt at pop lyrics.
by Dorothea Barth ©2008
Verse
Brought up on Big Brother
And Survivor too
Who’s the Biggest Loser?
Will Bachelor choose you?
Verse
Outwit, outsmart, outrageous
Kindness cannot win
Machiavellian madness
Winner’s greatest sin
Chorus
What victory in winning
When no longer you can love
Is there any triumph
When you’ve shot the dove?
Verse
Who can sing a better tune?
Who goes home today?
Which melody unworthy?
Whose beauty may not stay?
(Instrumental Interlude here)
Chorus
What victory in winning
When no longer you can love
Is there any triumph
When you’ve shot the dove?
Repeat Chorus
What victory in winning
When no longer you can love
Is there any triumph
When you’ve shot the dove
by Dorothea Barth ©2008
Written for Leah
Verse 1
Missing from school
Missing from MySpace
Breaking your rule
Found a new place.
Chorus
It’s not for everyone
Through passion must be won
When solitude becomes a friend
Yet kinship will abound
New friends my way have found
A beginning, not an end.
Verse 2
Friendship you repeal
Saying I’m a fake
It’s your heart that’s not real
And mine didn’t break
Solo (instrumental)
Bridge
I wish you all the best
And hope that you will find
That spark that gives no rest
And beauty that is kind
Chorus
It’s not for everyone
Through passion must be won
When solitude becomes a friend
Yet kinship will abound
New friends my way have found
A beginning, not an end.
Repeat Chorus
It’s not for everyone
Through passion must be won
When solitude becomes a friend
Yet kinship will abound
New friends my way have found
A beginning, not an end.
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